The Creation of the Dáil
Subtitle: a volume of essays from the Thomas Davis lectures
By: edited by Brian Farrell ; general editor Michael Littleton.
Contributors: Farrell, Brian, 1929-; Littleton, Michael.
Publisher: Blackwater Press in association with Radio Telefís Éireann
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Tallaght, Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil -- History.; Legislative bodies -- Ireland -- History.; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Other titles: Thomas Davis lecture series.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally presented as a series of broadcast talks in the spring of 1994.
Table of contents: title: The parliamentary road to independence / Brian Farrell; title: Sinn Féin from dual monarchy to the first Dáil / Michael Laffan; title: The election that made the first Dáil / John Coakley; title: The formation of the Irish political élite / Tom Garvin; title: The first Dáil and its constitutional documents / Brian Farrell; title: "Free women in a free nation" / Maryann Gialanella Valiulis; title: The courts of Dáil Éireann / Mary Kotsonouris; title: The army and the Dáil : civil/military relations within the independence movement / Eunan O'Halpin; title: Local government and the first Dáil / Mary A. Daly; title: The significance of the first Dáil / Joe Lee.